4 English Poems From Thursdays

1. Museum of Failed Products: A List Poem The Japanese call it, mono no aware, the pathos of things. The sadness of life's impermanence. Fortune Snookies, (fortune cookies for dogs) Jell-o for Salads Ben-Gay Aspirin Toaster Eggs Bic Disposable pantyhose For Oily Hair Only Multi-coloured Ketchup Funky Fries, (Kool Blue) Gerber for singles (Adult pureed Baby Food) Bald Guyz Head Wipes Garlic Flavoured Cake 2. Wish-bone Wishbone, bequeathed from childhood Dried to a fragile arch in the family stove Snap- a clean snap Once I romanticised dead bones Mouldering into dust like Ozymandios Have you seen death's horrid face? Bloating, putrefying The painted livid face in the grip of rot? Snap- a clean break The pyre is clean's a whistle Breath becoming smoke 3. Rant Media's the king of Balderdash Bombast, brainwashing, claptrap Overhype, vapid Adverts, their jargon hoodwink Scummed with veneer of verbiage Big bosses jump on the bandwagon Jiggery-pokery junkets, kick backs Rake-offs, skulduggery Employees must kow-tow to lacklustre elitism The God of Celebrity's worshipped Ephemera's lionized. The fatuous world of gimmick Of poseurs, of pseudos And their underwhelming shenanigans Facebooked, snapchatted, froth 4. Savon de Marseille (Extrapure Mediterranee) Pure Liquid Soap from Provence Containing: Hydroxyethyl cellulose Potassium Cocoate Parfum Glycerine Cocos Nucifera Tetra sodium EDT BHT benzyl salicylate Pure Liquid Soap from Provence